Author: Gillian Auste
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: literature, renaissance, studies, gascoigne, george
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1843841576
ISBN-13: 9781843841579

George Gascoigne was one of the most inventive and influential of the early Elizabethan poets. He found favour with Elizabeth I and was admired by Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare and their generation; his many innovations, and his importance to the later Elizabethans, gave him a uniquely significant role in the early years of the English literary renaissance. Yet his witty manuscript works for the Queen, his courtly performances and most of his anonymous printed books were soon forgotten or misattributed. It was the publications which bear his name - largely moralistic, or presented as moralistic

Author: David J. Shirt
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: research, bibliographies, checklists, guide, bibliographical, french, tristan, poems, old
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 1980-01-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0729300889
ISBN-13: 9780729300889

Author: Siân Echard
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: gower, companion
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1843840006
ISBN-13: 9781843840008

Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate were the three poets of their time considered to have founded the English poetic tradition. Gower, like Lydgate, eventually fell victim to changing tastes but is now enjoying renewed scholarly attention. Current work in manuscript studies, linguistic studies, vernacularity, translation, politics, and the contexts of literary production has found a rich source in Gower’s trilingual, learned, and politically engaged corpus. This Companion to Gower offers essays by scholars from Britain and North America, covering Gower’s works in all three of his languages;

Author: G H Roscow
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, poetry, syntax, style
Number of Pages: 3060
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0859910806
ISBN-13: 9780859910804

The purpose of this book is to give an outline of structural features of Chaucer’s poetic syntax that are relevant to the study of style, and to define some general tendencies in his construction of sentences. What emerges is a fondness on Chaucer’s part for discontinuity in the order of words and phrases and for certain forms of expression which have a wider application t:han their modern counterparts. In order that Chaucer’s usage may be seen in its historical context, comparative material is drawn from the writings of his contemporaries - Langland, Gower, and theGawain-poe

Author: Carol Dover
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: arthurian, studies, cycle, grail, lancelot, companion
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2003-10-23
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0859917835
ISBN-13: 9780859917834

The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries.A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The

Author: Julia Crick
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: summary, catalogue, manuscripts, iii, monmouth, regum, britannie, geoffrey, historia
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1989-12-22
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0859912132
ISBN-13: 9780859912136

`A fine research tool which has so many applications.’ SPECULUM

Author: Paul Suttie
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: renaissance, literature, studies, queene, faerie, interpretation
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-08-17
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1843840871
ISBN-13: 9781843840879

Recent Spenser criticism has thrown much new light, and much doubt, on the nature of The Faerie Queene’s involvement in contemporary political and religious controversies. Material to these developments has been wide recognition of the unreliability of the poem’s narrating voice and its often parodic relation to generic conventions. Nonetheless, some longstanding misconceptions about allegory still limit understanding of Spenser’s approach to topical issues. This book re-examines The Faerie Queene’s allegorical method, showing what is gained by recognising that the poem